LesleyCarol - Art School Journey

[_Sasha_]

Oh wow those dress designs are great, I like the bottom right treasure chest too, it conveys elegant and mysterious quite well. Can't wait to see the illustration!

[LesleyCarol]

Thank you! I'm happy I was able to pull it off

[Lukiesartventure]

Great stuff! From a design point of view you could shift the height of the central beam so that the chests aren't split exactly 50/50. Instead larger either on the top or the bottom to make the proportions more interesting

[gregorya]

You are improving pretty well. Your dress designs are very good as well.

[LesleyCarol]

Thanks for the feedback!
At first I thought you were talking about the dresses lol

[LesleyCarol]

Thank you, I really appreciate it!

[LesleyCarol]

I finished the illustration on time! This is my OC attending a Vampire Masquerade gala. It was refreshing seeing an event/challenge that wasn't DTYS. This was a good exercise to push myself time and design wise, I like how this came out
As usual C&C welcome.

[leeireo]

OHH you finished it, this is lovely! I really like the candle lighting

[LesleyCarol]

Thank you!! The candles weren't my idea but hopefully I captured the lighting well enough

[LesleyCarol]

I'm really struggling with this perspective and to make things worse I drew on my grid layer
Can anyone give some suggestions or point out any mistakes?

[Kosmonaut]

not the best at perspective in fact far from it but I can suggest/recommend talking to vonschlippe about it either on discord or here but I think discord might be faster he knows a lot about perspective and may be able to help you figure out the perspective of this piece and if there are any major mistakes with it

[LesleyCarol]

I finally got around to fleshing out the outfits for all of the clowns!
I'm trying to push myself and create a portfolio level character sheet so I'm also working on the back and headshots. It's definitely a challenge but I'm learning a lot. Hoping to finish this and the final design for the circus tent by the end of the month.

[Lukiesartventure]

Nothing jumps out as being incorrect! Looks like a great start, the ellipse on the side of the chest looks a little off though. One sec I'll check it!

[Lukiesartventure]

That should fix the perspective on that ellipse, rest looks good to me!

[gregorya]

II need to know, which point perspective are you using? Is it a two or three point perspective?

[LesleyCarol]

It's 3-point

[LesleyCarol]

This is interesting! What was your reasoning behind the different cross-lines?

[leeireo]

I really like Lucas' correction and I feel like I understand what he's doing.
I'm fairly sure he is using those cross lines to find intersecting points that he can use as a reference to figure out the symmetry.

If you take a look at the bottom of my little sketch, you'll notice that the area of 1 and 2 are the same, but once it's in perspective it appears as if the area of 2 is greater than area of 1.

In a 2D space that would be true, but in a 3D space like we're working in, the area of 1 and 2 will still be the same.

So in order to keep the area of those two sides the same, Lucas used all of those cross lines and horizonal lines to find intersecting points that he can reference off of to figure out how to correctly draw the arch of the chest in 3D space.

I hope this is right haha. I'm very curious how Lucas approaches his perspective so I'll stick again and await his response as well! :o

[LesleyCarol]

Yeah I've never seen anyone use multiple horizontal lines before, just the square/rectangle, and I'm really interested in the lines going in on the center line

[Lukiesartventure]

You've hit the nail on the head! By connecting all the edges to the centreline you make those upsidedown triangles. From there you get the intersection points which you can easily mirror to the other side of the centreline. From there is a simple game of connect the dots!